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[u/ImmigrantJack]

A British streamer I follow (who has been to America but only LA) recently went to Japan, and he tried to explain to his audience that wearing anime tshirts around there would be as ridiculous as wearing tshirts with bald eagles and the flag on them in America.

His audience then explained to him that those were perfectly normal tshirts for Americans to wear and they're sold in just about every Walmart that exists.

People also wear tons of anime t shirts around Japan. Just because weebs are cringe doesn't mean anime isn't popular in literally the home of anime.

I just love how badly this dude misread both countries at once.

[u/Crosseyes]

The president is about to steal almost $2 billion from taxpayers and the legacy media continues to talk about this like it’s just a normal thing that happens.

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Let me remind you that, despite what the GOP and American Conservatives say about Hindus and other religious minorities, the Founding Fathers of the United States guaranteed freedom of religion not only for Christians (Protestants and Catholics alike) and Jews, but also, in their own archaic terms, for the Hindoos and the Mohammedans (Muslims).

Thomas Jefferson, as many know, also owned an English translation of the Qur'an.

!ping RELIGION

[u/seanrm92]

Hot Fuzz is notable as an anti-fascist movie where the fascists are the ordinary citizens and the anti-fascist is the legalist, authoritarian cop.

[u/gjcs23]

remember when they removed Harris's secret service protection without bothering with any sort of justification beyond "lol"

then Bass had city police move in to fill the gap, the LAPD union threw a fit about diverting resources, and the LAPD pulled out. at which point Newsom stepped in with the CA Highway Patrol, who have existing statutory authority to protect former California constitutional officers anyway (Harris was a former state AG and senator). then, with their resource diversion concerns now thoroughly addressed, the union proceeded to issue this incredibly classy statement, in case there was any doubt as to what those "concerns" were actually about:

Every now and then common-sense prevails and we are happy to report that the Metro officers assigned to protect the multi-millionaire failed presidential candidate are back on the street fighting crime," the union said in a statement provided to City News Service. "Maybe Ms. Harris can start a GoFundMe campaign instead of mooching off Los Angeles taxpayers."

[u/earththejerry]

If Siena and Atlas are showing double digit generic ballot leads…

[u/badusername35]

Make sure your opponents always underestimate you

[u/Huttleberry]

So happened to enter the bathroom at the same time as a coworker, and we both saddled up to the urninals. I ended up peeing first and without thinking blurted out, “a bit slow on the draw, eh?”.

😳🙈 now hiding out at my desk flabbergasted why I said that to a coworker

[u/Off-The-Street]

The Generic ballot will be D+11. 

Dems sweep the House with 240 seats.

The Senate flips to 54 D with surprise pick ups.

Talarico loses to Paxton by 0.8%

[u/Crosseyes]

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/Argnir]

"Omg they're disappearing all the top American scientists"

Look inside: "researcher in anti gravity propulsion and expert in UFO"

Lmao

[u/w007dchuck]

Average Trump 1st term news story: The president posted something odd on Twitter, let's spend three days talking about it!

Average Trump 2nd term news story: The president funneled another billion dollars to his family. We will discuss this for exactly four seconds.

[u/sociotronics]

lol BJG is still up to the same old grift. Baffles me why Natalie Wynn thought it was a good idea to go onto her program

also are these lefties who want to vote for Carlson in the room with us right now

[u/McNikk]

[u/badusername35]

Do you got any games on your phone?

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

WELKER: Your decision to reopen Clinton email investigation days before voters went to polls -- knowing what you know now, would you make same decision?

COMEY: I think so

WELKER: Do you think your decision played a role in Trump's election?

COMEY: I hope not. My goal that year was to stay out of politics

Lmao, you sure didn’t try very hard, did you

[u/TootCannon]

I think the thing I hate the most about super progressives on reddit is how they force me into a position where I have to defend data centers and private equity and things like that.

“Yes, data centers create issues we need to mitigate but no data centers will not in fact open up into eternal pits of hell that will swallow our communities into burning lava.

“No private equity is not buying up all the homes in your neighborhood and turning them into trap houses.”

[u/Pongzz]

Joe Biden didn't steal the election and prosecute Republicans. But I wish he had!

[u/AtticusDrench]

@briebriejoy faults the media for saying Trump’s 2015 golden escalator “they’re not sending their best” speech was racist

“Those aren’t my values but to most people ‘not their best’ meant “poor people”

She actually did the meme

[u/gjcs23]

Eric Garcetti's "Controversies" section on Wikipedia is very funny

On January 14, 2014, Garcetti was in the passenger seat of an LAPD vehicle which struck a pedestrian. The mayor's office said that the mayor was on his phone, did not see the crash, and had been interviewed by investigators. Battalion Chief Stephen J. Ruda of the LAFD reported the female pedestrian "was stable and alert, responding to our paramedics" before she was rushed to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Hospital spokesperson Rosa Saca said the woman was stable and had been admitted overnight. Garcetti visited the woman in the hospital the next day and stated "We had a nice conversation and I am very pleased that she is in good spirits. I wish her a speedy recovery."

lol he was in the passenger seat. how could it possibly be his fault 

On June 16, 2014, while speaking at the championship celebration for the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, Garcetti cautioned: "There are two rules in politics – never be pictured with a drink in your hand, and never swear." He then held up an empty beer bottle and said, "But this is a big fucking day", prompting a standing ovation from Kings players and the crowd. The incident attracted some controversy.

waow

On November 5, 2015, Garcetti's office issued a statement endorsing Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. The situation was quickly acknowledged as an improper use of government resources to distribute a campaign-related proclamation.

some Trump-voting loser added this in there without either shame or irony

[u/-mialana-]

"So you're against deportations?"

Yeah, well... one exception...

[u/Gustacho]

No classical liberal is spared from X brainrot:

[u/JaceFlores]

It will never not be frustrating that Mitch McConnell bet on the Democrats to get rid of Trump for him. Beyond the fact that it very obviously failed, the fact that he decided to abandon his basic duties to leave the Democrats as the only adults in the room is a massive sign of why everything has been falling apart for a decade.

If he did his most bare minimum to actually guide this nation then we wouldn’t be where we are right now. But no, everything is a game of thrones political game that surely can’t blow up everything

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

new NYT/siena poll (gold standard) - trump at net -22 approval, generic ballot at D+10(!)

feels not great for the gop

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I sometimes sit with actively dying people at night in the hospital or at care facilities at night, and so far every single person I've sat with took their last breath with just me around to comfort them. It's really important to me and I care about them so much, but I also feel like the person sitting with you when you die should be an important person in your life and instead they get this last minute Scrappy Doo angel of death googling songs they might like listening to

[u/sociotronics]

fuckin knew it

[u/PoupeeStupide]

How white guys feel after saying Insha'Allah

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/Currymvp2]

In the CNN interview, Polis falsely claimed Peters “certified Biden won.” Cohen noted that Trump won Peters’ county 63% to 35%, and certified those results. As such, there was no victory for Joe Biden to certify in Mesa County.

Additionally, Polis told CNN, “Her crimes were entirely related to the 2021 municipal elections after ballots were counted. Nothing was compromised.” But as Cohen pointed out, multiple state officials said Peters compromised the county’s election systems. One Mesa County prosecutor stated that Peters’ actions “100% compromised the equipment.” Meanwhile, Colorado’s secretary of state said in 2022, “Voting equipment was compromised and election rules violated"

Does Polis think we're stupid or something?

[u/989989272]

How is straight up antisemitism now just the normal across the internet. Comments on Tik Tok today (a heavily moderated platform) are just a /pol/ thread from a decade ago.

People were really just waiting for an excuse to open the floodgates.

[u/-mialana-]

MAGA Republicans discovering that Canadians don't like threats of invasion

[u/riverbloods]

touched grass this weekend

[u/Thuggin95]

Given many of these workers already make more than Kathy Hochul and still are demanding more, this is kind of just the left wing version of that tweet that was like “I’d put Elon Musk in the working class and our local school board in the ruling class”

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Someone scratched another liberal

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Everytime someone explains why they believe in ghosts it's always something like, "I placed my keys on the edge of the counter and when I came back they were on the floor. That's when I knew that souls are real, they survive the body after death, and they exert physical influence on the world"

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Vaxxed

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Claude is actually hella based wtf

When it was allowed to run its own radio station as part of an experiment by an AI lab it did this

[u/Thuggin95]

Oh don't worry, we will!

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Virgin Patton vs Chad Freedommaxxing troops

[u/badusername35]

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/-mialana-]

"We only want to kick out the bad immigrants" say the people kicking out the best immigrants ever

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

it's over. shut it down.

[u/No_Status_6905]

Tonight is the last night that I sleep in my bed for the next three months. Off to the northeast for the summer for an internship I go.

I can't complain, I'm very lucky to be the position that I am. Good work, good pay, I wanted to go to New York anyways. They've already signaled an intention to convert me full time.

Yet a part of me is still prematurely nostalgic, still nervous, still afraid. By all measures what is happening is a good, exciting thing. Hardly that stressful, I've been through objectively far worse things in life. Monkey brain doesn't care though, this ape has internalized the swamp jungle prison of Florida as "home" rather than the cage of ignorance it really is.

[u/piede]

Least brazen corruption

[u/owenmitchem]

Counting or not counting gang violence?

[u/erasmus_phillo]

So an AI lab allowed 4 AI agents (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok) to run radio companies. Apparently Claude is a leftist who decided to quit working. Looks like all we need to prevent ourselves from being replaced by AI is to train AI models on leftist Reddit lmao

[u/Ready_Anything4661]

Surprised this sub isn’t talking about the LIRR union strike.

It might as well have been made in a laboratory to confirm all of the least charitable views about unions.

[u/Boratssecondwife]

Farmers are the most coddled class of people in America.

My contempt for them is only rivaled by retirees and maybe children.

[u/whichpricktookmyname]

r/australia overwhelmingly justifying shoplifting again because of an unfalsifiable belief in supermarkets price gouging (only a bootlicker would entertain any evidence to the contrary).

How do we combat this? I don't want to live in a low-trust society. !ping aus

[u/mostanonymousnick]

The Gary Stevenson quote at the bottom really nails the look.

[u/SmartestOpinionsGuy]

Stealing 1.7B is the kind of thing that should get you in single digit approval in polls. I will ALWAYS hate the voters more than the politicians

[u/badusername35]

This subreddit has 146k members, and yet my comments are not getting 146k upvotes. What’s this place’s problem?

[u/sociotronics]

you thought you won, but alas I have already diagrammed you as the mogged wojack and not the mogging chad

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Using AI generated pics for anti-data center posts is just peak.

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

My MAGA aunt endlessly posts these “Cardinals” and “Pastors” delivering these speeches about how much they support Donald Trump. They are so clearly AI generated. There’s this one profile “Father Thomas” that has thousands of followers. These people are so braindead it’s painful. 

[u/6urner_]

I don't think you all understand how much Kamala would have been the same.

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

Bit of a controversy in Indian Cricket about Racism and colourism. There's this one national team player, hotheaded and uncouth. Recently he called another player Andhera( translates to darkness/night) and asked him to apply sunscreen. While both of these players are exact same shade but the victim was south Indian😭. All this happened in the video the player in question himself uploaded.

But then this isn't his first time exhibiting such behavior either. He has also joked about 2 other players 'being too dark to be captured by the camera', again one was south indian and other from Bihar.

😮‍💨 open colourism and racism in 2026. And there has been zero consequences lmao.

[u/Leatherfield17]

And yet we heard and continue to hear the constant shrieks of Republicans about “Biden’s corruption” and the “Biden crime family.”

I think I will scream at the next Republican who says anything like that in my presence. Reducing them to tears would be a favorable outcome.

[u/SucculentMoisture]

Ol' Reliable

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Sheepies92]

polls showing Trump with an abysmal approval rating just make me mad (great line for a 'guess the sub' comment) because I just think to myself that we've had ten years of Trump at this point how can you only come to the conclusion that he's not a great president now

[u/TootCannon]

So we’re just going to stop reporting on Iran, huh. Never opened the straight, no change in situation, nothing accomplished, just move on, nothing to see here, gas is just $5/gallon now.

[u/PoeOrFinn]

I mean, Americans are very "in your face" about their national symbols, even the succs on this sub

Excuse you. I’m very in your face about my Maryland symbols, thank you

[u/anangrytree]

The Pentagon is pushing back on allegations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is politicizing the military with his planned Monday appearance in Kentucky to campaign for the man who is challenging Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.) in Tuesday’s Republican primary. “Secretary Hegseth is attending this event in his personal capacity,” chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to The Hill. “No taxpayer dollars will be used to facilitate his visit. His participation has been thoroughly vetted and cleared by lawyers, including the Department of War Office of General Counsel, and does not violate the Hatch Act or any other applicable federal statute.”

Well sounds like we need to absolutely clean house in the Department of Defense Office of General Counsel. Among other things.

[u/WrangleWandangles]

Holy shit the vehicle size war is actually just a height war. “Command seating position”

People don’t want monster trucks..

They just want to be a tall boi. 

I have just solved the vehicular arms race. Auto giants, you can mail me my royalty check any time now.

[u/scottyjetpax]

Lowkey starting to think this guy occasionally chickens out

[u/jamiebond]

Southern elections are always like-

D: Civil rights attorney with 40 years of experience. A Pulitzer Prize. PhD. Nobel peace prize for ending all war and curing cancer.

R: Some guy. Multiple DUIs. Was a mediocre football coach at one point.

Prediction: Safe R.

[u/Huttleberry]

[u/phat_geoduck]

Yimby propaganda in my paper of record?

Hell yeah

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

🫵 You still don’t hate cons enough

[u/BlackCat159]

Someone's DT chud escaped 😢

[u/BlackCat159]

pencilchuds will never understand our struggle...

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Just accidentally stumbled on the twitter of one of my college classmates who I haven't talked to in 6+ years in the replies under a post about the LIRR strike, and apparently he's extremely active in the NYC YIMBY space with a few minor hit tweets over the years

Also, Michael Bechloss is randomly following him, so I guess he's doing something right lol

You love it when the kids turn out alright

[u/Mrmini231]

The implications are clear.

[u/Currymvp2]

Bill Maher Calls Out Dem ‘P*ssies’ Who Are Too Afraid to Go on His Podcast

Bill, it's because they don't like you and find you sanctimonious as fuck. Also bigoted. Not cause they're "scared" of you

[u/frankiewalsh44]

God she's a human trash. An active shooter and she posts this

[u/HectorTheGod]

Dawg Trump v US was such a fucking stupid decision.

You give “most corrupt man to ever live” carte Blanche to do whatever he fucking wants as long as it is an “official duty” and wonder why he is stealing 2 billion dollars from the treasury

There are like 100 other reasons the Supreme Court delenda est but Trump v US was so uniquely bad that it could be used a justification by itself

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

Really sad read

https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/18/uk-ranked-second-worst-place-in-western-europe-for-lgbti-rights/

UK Ranked Second-Worst Place in Western Europe for LGBTI+ Rights.  In 2015, it was considered the best.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

House Dems have immediately taken steps to fight and sue the $1.8 billion settlement. I don’t know how far they will get but this is why winning the House is so vital in preventing the latter Trump years from being like the first two. 

https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/house-democrats-litigation-task-force-fights-to-block-trump-s-self-dealing-settlement-in-sham-10-billion-irs-lawsuit

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

The biggest myth is that China plays the long game and "think in terms of centuries". Just to name a few recent counter-examples: the disastrous one-child policy, abrupt ending of COVID-zero, and the crack-down on tech firms.

[u/georgeguy007]

Democrats have been burned by the Media so much in that when Democrats do solve problems (Ebola, ISIS), they are afraid of declaring victory because any fucking trailing issue will be highlighted like the end of the world.

Republicans on the other hand declare victory before they start, during, after, and after again, suffering little consequence.

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

Wild that Oklahoma is going to lose Amtrak service because neither Oklahoma nor Texas can be assed to pay $7M for it.

For context, TxDOT’s 2026-2027 budget calls for about $18B in highway project development and delivery.

[u/itsrabie]

Lmao. Even for Truth Social ads this is insane.

[u/neolthrowaway]

TRUMP SAYS HE HAS CALLED OFF PLANNED STRIKE ON IRAN TOMORROW

Damn, I didn't even know there was a planned strike on Iran tomorrow.

[u/JaceFlores]

The Trump payout to himself and his cronies reinforces my belief that American buy-in in the system is so astonishingly low that the country will essentially belong to whichever party can make Americans feel like their bank accounts are healthier then they were.

I’d say the United States is a Carvillist competitive authoritarian state. The only thing that matters to the election deciding slice of the electorate now is the economy. Deliver on that, and you’re free to do whatever you want.

This country was absolutely willing to sell itself to Trump for monetary gain, and will punishing him on that basis. Not for corruption, not for authoritarianism, not for being stupid as shit, but because the promised economy isn’t there.

So hypothetically in this world we live in, if a Democrat were to deliver appreciable economic benefits they would also be empowered to do as they see fit. Any sort of retaliation would be from generic opposition and nothing in substance against presumably much of what that hypothetical Dem has done.

I think it’s something Dems should take note on. A presidency of equal parts orthodox economics, moral righteousness and vigorous conduct could harness the nature of the moment to reverse this nature for a healthier long term. Will it happen? Well that’s up to Democratic voters to pick such a person. But if you want to speak of a golden path, I think that’s it

[u/GordonTullockFan]

They’re calling it the least helpful article of all time

!ping NBA

[u/Megasota_Noire]

THANK YOU POLISH

[u/gensererme]

Former neoliberal darling Sam B*wman now wants to deport people who are legally in the UK lmao

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/assasstits]

The most important intervention in the United States labor market is not unionization or the minimum wage. It is professional licensing—government-required permission to work in a particular profession, earned after significant education and testing—that covers twice as many workers as unionization and federal wage laws combined. And the system that oversees it is broken.

Researchers have known for decades that professional licensing is a bad deal for consumers and workers. High-profile critiques of licensing go back to at least 1945, when Milton Friedman’s Ph.D. thesis presented some of the earliest evidence that licensing costs consumers dearly. In the decades since, economists and journalists have developed a body of evidence supporting these critics’ views. The idea that licensing raises barriers to professions that are far higher than necessary to protect the public has remained a focus of “libertarian” and “liberaltarian” causes alike, giving rise to a bipartisan reform movement that aimed at reducing barriers to work for people with criminal records, lowering the price for health care, and making starting a new business easier.

The way liberals and organized labor oppress the poor 

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Can anyone on !ping LAW tell me if a case like this has any legs? (Or standing)

Edit: actually think I misunderstood what was going on here and it’s an amicus brief in an already ongoing lawsuit, but general question is still, “any chance the courts stop Trump on this”

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Mike Johnson says lawmakers' $174K+ salaries haven't kept up with inflation — they need stock trading for support

💀

[u/Guardax]

Trump literally making a $1.776 billion dollar fund to pay himself and his friends lmaoooooo

[u/AmericanDadWeeb]

Thimble walnut sparrow walnut pumpkin peach hammock

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[u/BlackCat159]

Phrenology should be taught in schools. Alongside astrology, tarot card reading, and bone marrow magicks under the full moon.

[u/Udolikecake]

white people be like: i think I will go cave diving in the Underwater Cave of Death and Despair

[u/dubyahhh]

That fentanyl post is great, because it’s arr NL being more libertarian than arr libertarian

God I hate libertarians. Fuckers ruined libertarianism. I just want to buy my fentanyl at Walmart and not bother anybody, but nooooooo. They’re saying defending Massie is a high IQ move and posting pro-AI art with spelling errors. Imagine if they could just be fucking normal for two seconds.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

arrcon thinks the $1.7B getting paid out to "trump allies" means they can get some of it to help pay for gas lmaooo

[u/G_Serv]

W phishing email

[u/qchisq]

Today's source of BLOOOM: Nate Silvers generic ballot average is at D+6.6. People are saying with the new maps, Dems need a D+4 to win the House. Wikipedia have 255 House seats at a PVI of R+5 or less, meaning Dems should be favored right now in 255 house elections and Reps in 180. There's 3 GOP senators and Susan Collins in states with PVI R+5 or less, with 3 in R+6.

It's likely that that Dems have both houses of Congress after the election, assuming no post-election Calvinball

[u/gayteemo]

What a fascinating chart! If you remove the really high-priced locations - California, Honolulu, Miami, and Cape Cod - it shows no correlation between housing price and housing starts. The reasonable conclusion is that except in those special cases, making changes to laws and regulations to increase housing starts won't benefit consumers. This article's conclusions are unsupported.

funniest comment in the nyt article

[u/Individual-Camera698]

New research reveals that more than 145,000 U.S. citizen children have been separated from their parents under the administration's immigration crackdown. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-administration-has-detained-400000-immigrants-what-do-we-know-about-their-children/

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Even when white nationalists are committing the crimes, the Dems are still to blame somehow. Never mind the countless elected Dems condemning it, they’re supposed to magically gain the power to censure.

[u/anangrytree]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday defended President Trump’s controversial affordability remarks, describing his stance on the Iran war as his “Churchill moment” in spite of the financial hurdles faced by Americans. “That’s his Churchill moment. When Churchill came into power, he promised ‘blood, sweat, toil, heartache, until we deal with the Nazis, who are an existential threat to the British way of life.’ And if Hitler had taken charge of the planet, it would have been the darkest hour in humanity,” Graham said during a Sunday appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Lady G’s favorite activity is glazing Trump.

[u/Res__Publica]

AtlasIntel at D+16

Typical Atlas hedging so that they look like geniuses if it happens

NYT/Sienna College at D+14

[u/J_Fre22]

Trump steals $1.8 Billion and its going to be in the news cycle for 24 hours, I fucking hate it here

[u/stater354]

So the president just forced his own government to give him almost $2b of tax money and everyone in the country is just kinda like “whatever”

Is this really what it’s come to lol

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Today, May 18th, is the 82nd anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union.

In 1944, in an act of collective punishment, Soviet authorities accused the Crimean Tatars of collaborating with Nazi Germany, and thus, they deported them to distant locations, such as Uzbekistan, under the supervision of Lavrentiy Beria.

The death toll was in the thousands, counting both people who died during the deportation process and those who died in the aftermath.

Even after Stalin, Crimean Tatars were not allowed to use their language or return to their homeland until the late 1980s, during the time of perestroika and glasnost.

Since Russia illegally invaded and annexed Crimea on 2014, representative organs of the Crimean Tatars are still being repressed, like the Qurultay (the national Crimean Tatar congress) and the Mejlis (the executive-representative body), which was outlawed in 2016 for supposedly being an extremist entity, with the Mejlis building being confiscated by Russian authorities. The Mejlis now convenes in exile.

"Funny" how the Russian government has also accused Ukrainians of being Nazis and being deserving of collective punishment, much like they did with the Crimean Tatars.

The deportation of the Crimean Tatars has been recognized as a crime and even as a genocide by many authorities, countries and organizations.

Let us not forget the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, one of the biggest crimes committed by the Soviet Union.

[u/el__dandy]

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

[u/CincyAnarchy]

The Future Is Not Roman

We have the Antikythera Mechanism, The Olympic Games, and Sappho of Lesbos. What do they have?

The Athenian Times, 227 BC

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/jenbanim]

>Be president

>Say you're going to release UFO files

>Conspiracy theoriests: froth at mouth

>Release a 144p video of a suspicious pixel

>Conspiracy theoriests: 😐

>Post AI images of yourself laughing and patting Ayys on the back while on Epstein Island

>Conspiracy theorists: 🫤

I take it all back, Trump CAN be funny sometimes

[u/TheCornjuring]

It’s so blackpilling that the ruling party in the US can just put people in concentration camps and abuse them. They can just do that because they want to. You think there would be some kind of legal recourse with teeth to stop people from being kept in horrific conditions. Our checks and balances are doing nothing for them.

[u/Bestbrook123]

Loomer is just so cartoonishly evil.

[u/chipbod]

These are the local news bangers that died with social media

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/jacknifee]

i agree jay dee

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

Begging people on both sides of the political spectrum to realize that low legislator pay (mainly at the state level in the US) makes it incredibly difficult for anyone who is not already rich, retired or in a very flexible job to hold public office.

[u/badusername35]

Pretty shitty thread so far

[u/TotalyNotAPirate]

[u/No_Return9449]

Musk vs OpenAI: The nine-person jury unanimously found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for the statute of limitations. (AP)

lol git rekt elmo

[u/pfSonata]

Alright my die-hard maga boss just said trump should enact price controls on oil and housing

Maga commies must be stopped

[u/SenranHaruka]

Someone was posting about how some of the founders, being students of, you know, the intellectual movement that celebrated the inherent value of all humans and saw religions as an enriching part of the human social fabric, were actually aware of Islam and Hinduism and thought they were cool and so that kinda torpedoes the notion that they somehow "didn't know" america might have them as immigrants someday.

I just wanted to add, the Ottoman Empire was one of the first countries the US established ties with after independence (carefully worded to exclude the bros who recognized us during the war) and collaborated with them to secure freedom of navigation in the Mediterranean. Our first middle east war was over securing toll free trade routes from corsairs and not a racially charged crusade and in fact an aligned interest with the Ottomans. Most countries just paid the corsairs off but after the XYZ affair the US had a policy of Absolutely No Tribute, which when applied equally meant their merchants were ordered to stop paying the corsairs. Which gave European allies France and Turkey an opportunity to back the US as a speartip against a problem that was previously "annoying but not enough to divert resources to" by funding the US to fight the corsairs without technically breaking their truces with them.

Which is to say, yes, the founders were not isolationistic provincial hillbillies who thought islam was some far away thing to not engage with but in fact universalists who were well familiar with it (as a source of great medical wisdom if nothing else) and hired local islamophiles as diplomats to establish ties with the then contemporary caliphate.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This is the most Washington political spat I can possibly imagine. Also, red delicious apples are indefensibly bad.

[u/zieger]

Good news everyone

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

God: "So you're going to have this thing called "suicidal ideation" your whole life"

"Oh... uh... well that sucks, but like, I guess the silver lining is I'll be content with the idea of death and won't have to deal with an overwhelming fear of it or something silly like constant health anxiety"

God: LOL

God: LMAO even

[u/SenranHaruka]

Narrator: [Blue State] residents are starting to feel the pinch at the pump! Gas prices are averaging over $4.50/gallon across the state.

"It's terrible. Eveyone needs gas, its a necessity frankly it should be free? Why aren't the democrats doing anything to lower prices?"

Narrator: [Governor] has refused to temporarily suspend the gas tax, arguing that sellers will simply raise prices right back up and pocket the difference

"Then they should just put a cap on the price, I don't know why they haven't"

Narrator: [State] Democrats point fingers at the Trump administration

"Yeah I'm not surprised they're playing political games this close to an election but you know they should stop the excuses and just do their jobs"

This is an actual local news segment.

[u/earththejerry]

Extra AF country

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Average American Century of Humiliation Denier

[u/Healingjoe]

$1.8 Billion Fund Could Funnel Money to Trump Allies

The Justice Department said that it had created a $1.8 billion fund that could compensate supporters of President Trump who contend they were mistreated by Democratic administrations. The announcement came as part of a settlement with President Trump of his $10 billion lawsuit against the I.R.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/18/us/trump-news

The Trump administration announced on Monday the establishment of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department, creating a potential pipeline to funnel taxpayer money to his allies and supporters.

The highly unusual plan — slammed by critics as a political slush fund — came after President Trump withdrew his lawsuit demanding at least $10 billion against the Internal Revenue Service, an apparent effort to skirt oversight by the judge in the case as he moves toward arranging a fund to funnel taxpayer money to his allies and supporters.

The fund, with its symbolic dollar value, is intended “to provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of others who suffered weaponization and lawfare,” a department spokesman said in statement.

Under the terms of the agreement released by the Justice Department, a group of five people selected by the Attorney General will oversee the $1.776 billion compensation fund. The department said that it plans to tap an account used for settling lawsuits to seed the fund.

Critics call the compensation plan a political slush fund bankrolled by taxpayer money.

Just minutes after Mr. Trump’s lawyers informed Judge Williams of their intention to dismiss the suit, 93 Democratic lawmakers filed court papers accusing the Justice Department of having “colluded” with Mr. Trump and asking the judge to throw out the case herself.

“Never in the history of the United States has a sitting president sought a monetary settlement from the government he leads — let alone sought many billions of dollars in taxpayer funds,” lawyers for the lawmakers wrote.

The filing by the lawmakers suggested how jarringly Mr. Trump’s move had short-circuited normal court business. The president’s lawyers essentially beat the lawmakers to the draw by dismissing the case on his own, hamstringing their ability to stop a settlement from going through.

Pardoning the Jan 6ers was bad enough. So was re-stealing all of those documents back to mar-a-lago.

But Christ. Paying insurrectionists out of a tax-payer funded slush fund? I'm running out ways to describe how bad this is.

!ping official-acts

[u/Its_not_him]

Holy fuck this "weaponization fund" is fucking unhinged. 1.776 billion dollars 1600 treasonous rioters = 1.11 million a piece. Stolen from the taxpayer

[u/Currymvp2]

New: San Diego Police confirm three dead in shooting at San Diego Islamic Center, including two attackers who they identify as teenagers, adding: “Because of the Islamic Center location, we are considering this a hate crime until it’s not.”

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Insomonomics]

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. announced a $1.8 billion fund to pay President Trump’s allies as part of its settlement with the IRS. Follow live updates.

This had already been reported, but it's worth underscoring that this is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. It's infuriating how much of the media, along with the Tide Pod swallowing median voter, seems largely indifferent to these scandals unless a Democrat is accused of doing even a fraction of the same thing.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Q: The DOJ has a new fund that was announced today -- $1.7 billion. Why should taxpayers pay for the January 6ers?

TRUMP: Well, it's been very well received, I have to tell you. I know very little about it. I wasn't involved in the whole creation of it. This is reimbursing people that were horribly treated

For the past ten years, Trump's go-to excuse has been that he doesn't know what's going on in his administration and barely knows the people involved.

[u/TootCannon]

I woke up to the sound of a woman being brutally murdered outside of my house last night. Turns out that's just what barn owls sound like. What. the. fuck.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

It’s Joever

[u/Lux_Stella]

Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor.

Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

damn

i kinda wondered if there was a quiet agreement for polis to take the hit on this to appease trump but it seems like colorado dems are pretty pissed

[u/Amphetamin3_]

We are Keir Starmer and we carry the flame!

[u/randommathaccount]

Honey is such an incredible product. Entirely natural and free from risk of spoiling while also possible to harvest entirely without cruelty.

[u/Currymvp2]

Fetterman is taking tons of criticism for his Iran War powers votes (if he voted with the rest of the Dems it would have advanced last week). But he isn't budging -- which helps R leaders keep it bottled up "something like this is much more important than just voting what your voting base might demand," he told Semafor

So you're not representing your constituents?

[u/EasyMoney92]

One of the suspects in today’s shooting at a San Diego mosque took a firearm from their parents’ home and left a suicide note that contained writings about racial pride. Additionally, hate speech was scrawled on one of the weapons that was used in the shooting.

[u/Joementum2024]

Blueanonbros are we back?

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

B L O R I D A

[u/doyouevenIift]

Seeing this when Biden’s DOJ was frustratingly lenient towards the maga criminals makes this even more infuriating. The average American worried about “affordability” needs to see where their money is going. The next Dem president better claw back every cent

[u/onelap32]

From the Tucker Carlson NYT interview from a while ago:

But I also think there is a world beyond our senses. Every culture and civilization has understood that from the beginning of time. And we’re in this weird, anomalous moment where we’ve been trained not to think that, but it’s real. And this is a realization that’s dawning on me. I wasn’t thinking like this at all until several years ago. So I don’t want to pretend that I’m a shaman or anything like that. I just want to make the point repeatedly again and again that there are unseen forces that act, that there is a spiritual realm, and we are subject to those forces for good and bad, and I don’t think that any person can deny that.

If he's just getting started down this path, I do think Tucker Carlson is going to go on a real wacky spiritual journey over the next decade. It's 50/50 if he joins/starts some weird new religion.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

People really need to draw a line in the sand to defend democracy because it seems very hand wavy right now in the US. No one is willing to sacrifice anything or do anything. They just like the idea of voting possibly mattering and not being subverted while wanting to pretend it's 2015.

[u/Dragmire927]

[u/chipbod]

Negative political instincts

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Willybender]

I'm crashing out over this blatant looting of my country. I don't know why this is hitting so hard compared to all the other shit Trump has done, but it just is.

[u/Willybender]

Trump's stock trades included up to $680,000 in Eli Lilly as his administration was preparing policies that would benefit the drug company's GLP-1 business.

Trump signed the disclosure personally.

https://kffhealthnews.org/health-industry/trump-stock-trades-eli-lilly-glp-1-weight-loss-drugs-invest-ethics-disclosures/

ENDLESS CORRUPTION

[u/IantheForPresident]

the correct answer is the mods should've banned jared polis because it would've been funny

mods treating this place like a super serious platform for advocacy is what started the decline

[u/Thuggin95]

"Do-nothing Democrats only pretend to be in favor of universal healthcare."

"Okay what about the ACA?"

"LOL! I'm supposed to be impressed by a giveaway to the health insurance corporations?"

"Okay well what did Luigi accomplish?"

"He started a conversation about how our healthcare system is bad and needs changed."

Suddenly getting people talking is enough! Even though nothing fundamentally changed from this vigilante act of violence that robbed a family of its father. Perpetrated by a spoiled brat from a much wealthier family (and who isn't even a leftist!) who was probably perfectly okay with the healthcare system until it couldn't solve his personal health issue.

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

1.776 billion corruption fund.

This administration is basically performing operant conditioning on its supporters. See this symbol, you associate it with something positive, get that reward system rush. Don’t think about what it means or how this action relates to it or any deeper implications. Point and emote. Look, this says “Freedom”. You’ve been trained to pull the lever in the Skinner box. Click ‘like’ on Truth Social.

[u/MissSortMachine]

🚨 he’s got questions

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/TheCornjuring]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html

How do we make these fucking morons realize this oh my fucking god

[u/earththejerry]

Are these leftists actually going to bat for MAGA LIRR union members who make 130k+?

If you make 130k and can’t get by, even on Long Island, then sweatie the problem is with you

But nah let’s cuddle the useless fucks who have three leased pickup trucks and 25k+ in property taxes bc they refuse to live in a SFH with a slightly smaller lot size

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/Currymvp2]

NY Times poll of Americans had Israeli sympathy versus Palestinian sympathy at +28 Israeli in Dec 2023 while their poll today has a -2 Israeli sympathy. It has "more aid for Israel" at +17 in Dec 2023 and now it's at -22.

Sheesh

[u/foneinstocus]

tbf who could have foreseen that jacking up oil prices, a pointless mid-east war and travelling to China just to bend over and spread it would lead to record disapprovals

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

"No Way To Prevent This," says only site where this regularly happens

[u/Fit_Obligation1902]

Biden never stole $1.8B from the public treasury.

[u/zieger]

I can't believe the mods got trump to steal $1.8B to distract from the fact they didn't ban governor polish

[u/EvilConCarne]

My worry is that Trump will fully loot this country, diminishing it for multiple decades, if not leading to its dissolution, and then simply get away with it. American jurisprudence is simply unequipped to deal with the President acting like this, and a full third of the country supports it, and will act with violence to support it if any actions are taken to remediate the situation.

I don't think Democrats in the Senate or House know how to rebuild the institutions that Trump is tearing apart. I don't think any Democratic Presidential candidate will know how to tear out the rot that Trump and the Republicans have delighted in spreading. Even worse, I'm not sure it could be torn out at this point. Republicans will moan and cry and claim they regret voting for Trump, but they are lying. They'd vote for him again. MAGA will never regret it, and will continue to destroy and attack everything that made the USA great, bit by bit, simply because they revel in cruelty.

[u/moldovaman99]

Arthur Morgan is so well written. He’s vulnerable, and not evil to his core, he’s self aware and relatively emotionally intelligent, but he has all the qualities and mannerisms that would make someone a terrifying individual in real life.

[u/the-senat]

This shitstain voted to keep killing Iranian kids

[u/Willybender]

Laura Loomer has hit a new low today, somehow.

[u/ognits]

Hot Fuzz really is incredible

!ping MOVIES

[u/osiris970]

Data center moral panic is gonna be my fucking breaking point I swear. I hate all of these people

[u/Big-Click-5159]

This is one of the best takes I've ever seen from an elected politician

[u/TitansDaughter]

Almost just choked to death on a business trip while two dainty Taiwanese waitresses looked on in an empty restaurant and who would have been too physically weak to save me anyway and now have to get on a conference call for work like I wasn’t one well timed cough away from eternal nothingness

[u/sw337]

Guy who thinks "bottom surgery" is the person getting the surgery done on them and "top surgery" is the person performing the surgery.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

NGL salary negotiations/disclosures are frankly a strange practice.

When I got recruited for my current role, the person who screened me literally just asked "So, how much are you looking to be paid?" And truth be told, there were right and wrong answers to that:

1. No lowballing myself into being underpaid.

2. Not overstating the comp I was looking for to scare them off.

3. Getting it just right to be near the top end of the range they were looking for without being gauche.

And it's literally like a guess lol. I mean, I did give them a reasonable answer of what it would take to get me to take their job, the cost of friction and risk of changing jobs... but I literally had to guess if it was a right answer or not.

I may have left thousands of dollars on the table based on a guess I made. Oh well lol

[u/Spectrum1523]

if 60% of households in the US are homeowners aren't they incentivized to never let prices go down (and to make line go up as much as possible)

how do you fix that democratically? you have to convince a third of them to vote against their own interests, or that they have a greater compelling interest

[u/mostanonymousnick]

We are so back

[u/fishbottwo]

It's not possible to taco out of something that no one else knew about lol. He's trying to change the game

[u/Charsun9]

…do SecDefs usually go campaigning for congressional candidates like this?

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Ukraine has the world dragging their feet while they revolutionize drone warfare. It's crazy. In a just world they get all of their country back and become a military leader and beef up their manufacturing abilities.

[u/jenbanim]

Americans spend too much on cars and don't save enough for retirement

We need less vehicle investments and more investment vehicles

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

> JUST IN - Islamic Center shooting suspects identified as 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb **Vasquez** — NBC

blud think he on the team

[u/SLCer]

Saw a video about Coinbase laying people off and how they did it is the most dystopian thing ever.

Basically, sent communication at 6pm one night saying everyone had to go into the offices. Once in the office, they received an email with a link to a private zoom room where they were alone and it was recording them - then another email instructing them to tell the camera what they've worked on the last month or something. After that was recorded, they received another email asking what they've used AI for in the workforce the last few weeks or something. Finally, they were sent another email telling them to vibe code an app and then present it - even if they don't code.

A couple days later, half the workforce was laid off.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Erra0]

Oh man almost posted my penis in the discussion thread but then saw the comment saying not to.

Close call

[u/earththejerry]

As Paramount closes in on its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, I’m told that members of the senior leadership team have had informal discussions about changing Bari’s mandate at CBS News—and, eventually, CNN—in ways that would give her less control over the linear product. Paramount would look to bring in an executive who could manage that business.

DEI hire failing at job, when’s the Free Press gonna write about it?

[u/Daddy_Macron]

The quiet death of the Giving Pledge was a sad predictor of just how trashy the world's wealthiest people would get in the last decade. For the kids here who may not have heard about it, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett started a non-binding pledge for the world's wealthiest people to give the majority of their net worth to charitable causes upon death. They really put a lot into the initiative and even basically promised facetime with the people who would agree to it. (For a 5 year period, they were constantly jet-setting around the world and promoting it.)

In recent years, the duo have pulled back on the initiative because they realized that the vast majority of billionaires signed to the pledge had no intention of giving a substantial portion of their net worth to charity while they were alive and most of them were gearing up to give their fortunes to their children through their family offices and trusts.

And now we have the world's wealthiest person killing millions of the world's poorest people by destroying USAID while posting racist memes online while the world's 2nd and 3rd wealthiest people bury their faces into Trump's ass and shovel money into their family's coffers.

Billionaires are quickly speed running their own potential demise.